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James T. Monroe

جيمس مونرو

Notable figure · Source: Hispano-Arabic Poetry, Gorgias Press, book page · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Al-maqamat al-luzumiyyah, transl. James T. Monroe (Brill, 2002)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Hispano-Arabic poetry anthology; translated al-Saraqusti

Biography

Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Author of Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (Leiden 1970) and Hispano-Arabic Poetry: A Student Anthology, with literal translations and notes. He translated the risala of Ibn Garcia with five refutations (1970) and al-Saraqusti's al-Maqamat al-Luzumiyya (2002), and wrote on Badiʿ al-Zaman's maqamat (1983).